Russians in the Catskills – Tablet Magazine

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 ~ Olga Zilberbourg ~ 1 Comment

Tablet Magazine has published an excerpt from Maxim D. Shrayer’s new book, A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas. The book is upcoming September, 2019 from Cherry Orchard Books (gotta love the name of the press) and is already available for preorder.

The novellas feature episodes from the life of Simon Reznikov, a young Soviet Jewish man who immigrates to the United States with his parents and studies literature in New England. How will his future turn out? He can’t see the next turn his life will take ahead of time, yet, once that turn comes, there are ways in which it has been completely predictable.

Janet Fitch’s Chimes of a Lost Cathedral

July 24, 2019September 18, 2019 ~ Olga Zilberbourg ~ 1 Comment

This book is a sequel to The Revolution Of Marina M about a poet who comes of age during the Russian Revolution: “The epic journey that began with The Revolution of Marina M. concludes in Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, in which passionate young poet, lover, and idealist Marina Makarova emerges as a woman in full during the transformative years of the Russian Revolution. Having undergone unimaginable hardship, she’s now at the height of her creative power and understanding, living the shared life of poetry–when the revolution finally reveals its true direction for the future.”

Published on July 2, 2019 by Little, Brown & Company

Editor: Asya Muchnick at Little, Brown

Agent: Warren Frazier, John Hawkins Group